Stepped outside yesterday

While I was at work yesterday Nat showed up at the house and went to work in the yard. The wooded area on the south end of the property has been the leaf dump area for years, the past few though not so much. The bittersweet has hit an epidemic proportion. The trees have been killed by it and more are under attack. Those the little vines run everywhere and where two run together more follow and the grow a single skin. over and over this happens until the vines have a tree bark look and are as thick as young trees. but unlike young trees, these grow like snakes wrapping around everything, and where they touch the ground the shoot out roots to grapple with other things like rocks, debris, other vines and more trees. 

Well, Nat went to work on them and by the time I came home at 6pm she had a large area cleared out, but still the vines are everywhere you walk and the few trees she left standing need to come down also, but their size makes it difficult.

I do wish she had taken some "before" photographs, because the difference is impressive and the amount of work she did, outstanding.